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  <div class="section" id="introduction">
<span id="intro"></span><h1>Introduction<a class="headerlink" href="#introduction" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>phpMyAdmin can manage a whole MySQL server (needs a super-user) as
well as a single database. To accomplish the latter you&#8217;ll need a
properly set up MySQL user who can read/write only the desired
database. It&#8217;s up to you to look up the appropriate part in the MySQL
manual.</p>
<div class="section" id="supported-features">
<h2>Supported features<a class="headerlink" href="#supported-features" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Currently phpMyAdmin can:</p>
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<li>browse and drop databases, tables, views, columns and indexes</li>
<li>display multiple results sets through stored procedures or queries</li>
<li>create, copy, drop, rename and alter databases, tables, columns and
indexes</li>
<li>maintenance server, databases and tables, with proposals on server
configuration</li>
<li>execute, edit and bookmark any <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-sql"><em class="xref std std-term">SQL</em></a>-statement, even batch-queries</li>
<li>load text files into tables</li>
<li>create <a class="footnote-reference" href="#f1" id="id1">[1]</a> and read dumps of tables</li>
<li>export <a class="footnote-reference" href="#f1" id="id2">[1]</a> data to various formats: <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-csv"><em class="xref std std-term">CSV</em></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-xml"><em class="xref std std-term">XML</em></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-pdf"><em class="xref std std-term">PDF</em></a>,
<a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-iso"><em class="xref std std-term">ISO</em></a>/<a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-iec"><em class="xref std std-term">IEC</em></a> 26300 - <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-opendocument"><em class="xref std std-term">OpenDocument</em></a> Text and Spreadsheet, Microsoft
Word 2000, and LATEX formats</li>
<li>import data and <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-47"><em class="xref std std-term">MySQL</em></a> structures from <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-opendocument"><em class="xref std std-term">OpenDocument</em></a> spreadsheets, as
well as <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-xml"><em class="xref std std-term">XML</em></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-csv"><em class="xref std std-term">CSV</em></a>, and <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-sql"><em class="xref std std-term">SQL</em></a> files</li>
<li>administer multiple servers</li>
<li>manage MySQL users and privileges</li>
<li>check referential integrity in MyISAM tables</li>
<li>using Query-by-example (QBE), create complex queries automatically
connecting required tables</li>
<li>create <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-pdf"><em class="xref std std-term">PDF</em></a> graphics of your
database layout</li>
<li>search globally in a database or a subset of it</li>
<li>transform stored data into any format using a set of predefined
functions, like displaying BLOB-data as image or download-link</li>
<li>track changes on databases, tables and views</li>
<li>support InnoDB tables and foreign keys see <a class="reference internal" href="faq.html#faq3-6"><em>3.6 What is currently not supported in phpMyAdmin about InnoDB?</em></a></li>
<li>support mysqli, the improved MySQL extension see <a class="reference internal" href="faq.html#faq1-17"><em>1.17 Which MySQL versions does phpMyAdmin support?</em></a></li>
<li>create, edit, call, export and drop stored procedures and functions</li>
<li>create, edit, export and drop events and triggers</li>
<li>communicate in <a class="reference external" href="http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/translations.php">62 different languages</a></li>
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<div class="section" id="a-word-about-users">
<h2>A word about users<a class="headerlink" href="#a-word-about-users" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Many people have difficulty understanding the concept of user
management with regards to phpMyAdmin. When a user logs in to
phpMyAdmin, that username and password are passed directly to MySQL.
phpMyAdmin does no account management on its own (other than allowing
one to manipulate the MySQL user account information); all users must
be valid MySQL users.</p>
<p class="rubric">Footnotes</p>
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<tr><td class="label">[1]</td><td><em>(<a class="fn-backref" href="#id1">1</a>, <a class="fn-backref" href="#id2">2</a>)</em> phpMyAdmin can compress (<a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-zip"><em class="xref std std-term">Zip</em></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-gzip"><em class="xref std std-term">GZip</em></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-rfc-1952"><em class="xref std std-term">RFC 1952</em></a>
formats) dumps and <a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-csv"><em class="xref std std-term">CSV</em></a> exports if you use PHP with
<a class="reference internal" href="glossary.html#term-zlib"><em class="xref std std-term">Zlib</em></a> support (<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--with-zlib</span></tt>).
Proper support may also need changes in <tt class="file docutils literal"><span class="pre">php.ini</span></tt>.</td></tr>
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